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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 11d

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored

Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊

Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek,
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social

APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 12d

Why #misinformation must not be ignored - A new, open access article by @ulliecker.bsky.social and colleagues, published in American Psychologist bit.ly/4pJ20fY

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 16d

Call for Papers:

2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 Apr 2026

University of Cambridge

For more information, see the Summit website, the Summit's LinkedIn feed, or email [email protected].

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

Call for Papers: Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 April, 2026, University of Cambridge

Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation.

Potential research focus might include (but is not limited to) the effects on global systemic economic, health, environmental, migration, human rights, or human conflict risk from:

· Social media message feed algorithms that amplify disinformation or suppress evidence-based narratives,
· Search advertising algorithms that incentivize expanded reach of disinformation or suppression of evidence-based narratives,
· Artificial intelligence information errors, bias, or corruption,
· Crypto and meme asset trading, based on disinformation or to facilitate laundering, or
· Psychological addiction or radicalization inspired by artificially created or algorithmically amplified disinformation.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17d

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Be Loud — For America

By Governor JB Pritzker

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Sep 3

Secession?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 31

Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social:

"It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us."

www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...

Let It Burn: What an Immigration Raid on Washington Firefighters Can Teach Us About MAGA Fascism

MAGA is not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 22

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.

Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

officialjackwhite
"Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung

Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on
anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's
blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about
Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled
his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress,
his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at
distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the
Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with
poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing
to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise
and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear"
that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults.
How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a
real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion,
trump is masquerading as a human being.

officialjackwhite
He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy.
He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in
has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung
and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and
"ample time on
at golf than
helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There
progress with him, only
smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your
concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any
money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot.
No intelligent person can defend this
low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka,
trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have
fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who
has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands,
this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and
voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman
leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain
who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves.
And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's
owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he
was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a
cheap grifter and a thief.

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Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Aug 19

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung.

bit.ly/3HkcyBf

Call for Papers Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption.docx

Call for Papers: Special Collection Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption Deadline for Letters of Intent: October 15, 2025 (https://bit.ly/4mlowtf) Guest Editors: Gale...

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jul 28

Yep. I feel exactly the same way... I wish there were more that we all could do to save American academia from this...😠. But instead, I'm hoping to leave the United States.

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jul 28

Glad to finally get this in the wild, as data was collected back in 2021. This project was inspired by a Zoom discussion organized by Beatrice Kuhlmann and Nancy Dennis in January 2021. Also may be of interest to @srndna.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social among others...

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jul 28

Finally, there is evidence against basic MTurk, including an atypical age effect on sustained attention in the MTurk sample, with older adults doing better (rather than no age effect). Overall, cognitive performance was lower than CR or Prolific, with no better representativeness on personality. 4/

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jul 28

Effects of age on cognition did not differ much by platform type. But effects of age on personality measures did -- effects of age on personality were more comparable to traditional samples in panel samples than in crowdsourced samples, particularly for Extraversion and Openness. 3/

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jul 28

More specifically, we tested people on vocabulary, digit symbol coding, paired associate memory, and sustained attention (via @testmybrain.bsky.social). Generally, cognitive performance was better across age groups for participants from @cloudresearch.bsky.social and @joinprolific.bsky.social . 2/

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jul 28

New preprint -- we (me, @klempert.bsky.social, Dave Wolk, and Joe Kable) examined whether characteristic aging-related changes in cognition and personality show up on six online platforms (3 crowdsourcing sites -- MTurk, CloudResearch Toolkit, & Prolific, and 3 panels). osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 28

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...

Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget

NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · Jul 20

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jul 7

Do swing voters actually care about sadism and dehumanization if they don’t personally know and care about the victims? Sadly, the answer seems to be no. So then what?

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jun 29

The other women were constituents who said he put his hands in inappropriate places when taking pictures. Hard to know what to make of that but those could easily be misunderstandings. Plus from what I recall, all of his female senate staff members were willing to vouch for him not being a creep.

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jun 28

He was NOT credibly accused of sexual harassment and impropriety by eight women though. There was the one picture that looked awful, except that Franken says Tweeden was in on the joke, and given that she’s a right winger who is friends with Roger Stone, she’s not very credible.

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jun 13

Press for my new article with @profsanderlinden.bsky.social !

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jun 13

The neuroscience of misinformation and ways to counter it
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

The neuroscience of misinformation: A research agenda

The global spread of misinformation is undermining democracies worldwide. In this NeuroView, we explain how neuroscience can inform our basic understanding of what makes the brain susceptible to false...

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · Jun 13

New paper out in Neuron today with the great @indecisionwins.bsky.social.

We call upon neuroscientists of all stripes to work on the neuroscience of misinformation: what makes the brain susceptible, how does it spread, & how can we optimize interventions? 👇

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lG3e3BtfH...

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jun 13

New paper: A short position piece that @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and I wrote, laying out some ways that neuroscience can inform our understanding of how people process misinformation. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lG3e3BtfH...

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · Jun 5

OK, fair, but given the historical pattern where academics fled the Nazis to the US, which made US science the world leader...wouldn't it be in Europe's interest to ramp up investment in academia while America is blowing itself up? Or would Europe rather that we all just descend into a new dark age?

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